So, on Saturday I got tricked into evangelism.
Okay, that’s not quite true. But basically a “gig in Stockport” turned into “an open air gig in Stockport” and thence into “an open air envangelistic event in the centre of Stockport, complete with visiting guest evangelists imploring passers by to repent of their sins and follow Jesus and all that”. We got things thrown at us, and I spent quite a lot of time sort of staring at my feet. We had to carry all our gear – including the PA that we’d had to bring with us – down several flights of stairs through a shopping centre. And then afterwards, only one of the ten or twenty organisers/helpers helped us to derig and carry the stuff back to our cars; I put my back out carrying some heavy gear and spent most of Sunday in agony. I’m sure they all meant well, but I left the whole thing with a rather bitter taste in my mouth – that said, we did sound great and when we weren’t bashing people over the head with the Bible, we had a decent size of audience, and we did get paid (a nominal sum) so it’s not all bad.
So, Sunday was kind of a writeoff in terms of doing anything, but it did mean I got to spend the afternoon setting up a second character in WoW. If you see FightyDude the Human Warrior running around on Bloodhoof, say hi and give him any spare leather you might have – he’s basically just there to harvest for my main character 🙂
And then today was the first windsurfing day of the year – having bored Naomi to tears on saturday evening looking at weather forecasts and banging on about things like occluded fronts and the beaufort scale, I established that being on the water at about 12pm today was going to be a good thing – and indeed it was. Nice, high and fairly consistent force 4 winds; the odd white horse – great planing conditions for a 6m sail. Of course, I’m not used to having these sort of conditions so spent a good deal of the time in the water, but whilst I was blasting up and down it was great fun; I only came in when the wind died and I could no longer feel my fingers (hey, it’s not that warm yet…)
So, what did you do?